Re: [Motion-user] What happened to the 'stream_preview_method' config option?

[Ronnie M. <ron...@gm...>]

4.1 doesn't offer that option
https://motion-project.github.io/motion_config.html If you scroll down,
then you'll see that feature is only listed under 4.2.



On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 2:03 PM Peter Fletcher via Motion-user <
mot...@li...> wrote:

> I have recently started to set up motion on a Pi 3B+ running the latest
> version of raspbian Buster. I used apt to install version 4.1.1.
> Following the configuration instructions on the site, after setting up
> the basic parameters and making sure that everything worked, I tried to
> "Specify stream_preview_method 3" in the config file, in order to look
> at motion detection. I had to write the option in, since it wasn't in
> the default file, and when I ran motion, I got an 'Unknown config
> option' error for it. Further research suggests that this option may
> have existed in a previous incarnation of motion, but has not been
> available for some time. Is there a new option which provides the same
> sort of split view - showing detected motion as well as the basic video
> stream? In any event, the configuration instructions need to reflect the
> currently available (and unavailable) options.
>
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